When I try to see my network computer, I couldn't see any. I am pretty sure, those computers are config correctly, since they could see each others. I tried to access directly by IP "smb://192.168.1.3", this works fine, but the browse nework just doesn't work. This has worked sometimes, but not all the time, it is kind of random. What could be the issue?

Without knowing anything about how you are set up I would guess it's about how your Mint machine is configured to resolve netbios names to ip addresses ( name resolve order ). Go through the checklist and see if it resolves anything:

altair4 wrote:Without knowing anything about how you are set up I would guess it's about how your Mint machine is configured to resolve netbios names to ip addresses ( name resolve order ). Go through the checklist and see if it resolves anything:

After I swap the name resolve order, I restarted smbd and nmbd, and smbtree still returns nothing.All my computers are under 192.168.1.xxx.I have another ubuntu box in the same network. That computer wihout the need to swap the order, is able to see all the share in the network.I honestly think there is some bugs in Mint.Supposely, we do not need to swap the orders, even our windows machines are running with bcast at last by default.My hostname is Gamma, 5 characters.

I just directly access by host name in the location bar like this: "smb://PC-ONE", this worked fine. This means my mint resolving hostname works fine. But browser all network computers still doesn't work, it just show nothing.

I tried that also, it's empty.On my ubuntu box, I do not need to expand "windows network", and all network computers show up "next" to "windows network"

What's even more weird is that I run nmblookup, it is able to find network computers:@Beta ~ $ nmblookup 'WORKGROUP'querying WORKGROUP on 192.168.1.255192.168.1.181 WORKGROUP<00>192.168.1.135 WORKGROUP<00>192.168.1.182 WORKGROUP<00>192.168.1.3 WORKGROUP<00>192.168.1.2 WORKGROUP<00>192.168.1.5 WORKGROUP<00>

I finally got it fixed, the problem is my "new" "expensive" linksys router. Here is what I found: $ nmblookup workgroup#1dquerying workgroup on 192.168.1.255192.168.1.1 workgroup<1d>

That's my router's IP. The new series of linksys router uses samba to detect network devices. It has a higher os level, so the router will always become the domain master. But it has a problem sharing network browser information with my mint box.